BLoomberg Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport added 4.8 million passengers in 2017 with the help of a six-runway setup that’s unique in Europe, putting it almost level with Paris Charles de Gaulle as the region’s second-busiest hub. Schiphol, home base to KLM, attracted 68.4 million travellers, consolidating its lead over Frankfurt and putting it within 1 million of the total at Charles …

Bloomberg Woolworths Holdings Ltd. plunged the most in almost two years after South Africa’s largest food and clothing retailer said sales growth slowed in the fiscal first half, while earnings also declined. Revenue increased by 2.5 percent in the 26-week period ending on December 24, compared with 6.7 percent the previous year, the Cape Town-based company said in a statement. …

Bloomberg For years, Lockheed Martin Corp. has been developing a successor to one of the fastest aircraft the world has ever seen, the SR-71 Blackbird, the Cold War reconnaissance craft that the US Air Force retired almost three decades ago. Lockheed officials have said the hypersonic SR-72—dubbed the “Son of Blackbird” by one trade journal—could fly by 2030. But a …